the u.s. capitol, field by donald trump s lie. but there is a new are bigger test for democracy that is in the hands of the court. also this hour, you will hear from a capitol police officer who defended the capitol that day. harry dunn is with us live with why he is running for congress. and also tonight, look here the man who led the nra four years into the ground is out. thanks in part to the legal process of new york s attorney general. i am paola ramos, in for a minute look at dean, let s do this. today, january 6th, marks three years since rioters violently stormed the halls of our nation s capital. three years since supporters of donald trump attempted to overturn the will of the, people and three years since americas nearly 250-year-long democratic experiment almost made its end. yesterday, president joe biden kicked off the 2024 election year by marking this anniversary with a grim warning, the threat to our democracy is still ongoing. trump is trying to stea
supreme court weighs in. plus, harvard s first black president steps down amid allegations of plagiarism and disastrous congressal testimony. was race also a factor? an exchange system in the u.s. falls victim to an elaborate kidnapping plot. one that cost his family $80,000. tonight, a warning from the fbi that he is not alone. let s go outfront. outfront to benight, trump appeals. his legal team appealing the decision that keeps him off the ballot in maine saying the secretary of state there had no legal authority to remove him from the ballot, calling her a quite biased decision maker who should have recused herself and otherwised failed to provide lawful due process. trump s team is expected to appeal colorado s decision. he s expected to appeal that to the supreme court at any moment, following in the steps of colorado s gop. those decisions are based on section three of the 14th amendment which was passed after the civil war and says a person is ineligible to run
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plagiarism? what we are learning today from harvard insiders. plus, the deadly airport runway inferno. two lanes collide, five on one jet nearly killed, 400 escaped alive. how did the planes and up on the runway in the first place? and the senior member of hamas assassinated at an explosion in beirut. is the situation in the middle east about to get even worse? happy new year, and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard university s claudine gay is stepping down as president, resigning after just about six months on the job. the student journalist who broke the story of her stepping down for the harvard crimson newspaper noted that this is the shortest presidential tenure in harvard s august history. it has been quite a tumultuous month for the now former present. when asked for calling for the genocide of would violate harvard campuses code of conduct. yes or no. it can be, depending on the context. from that, to multiple allega